Samary Baranov

Samary I. Baranov received his M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from
Electrotechnical University (S.-Petersburg) in 1962, Ph.D. degree (1966) and
Doctor of Sc. degree (1973) in Computer Engineering from Institute of Precise Mechanics and
Optics (S.-Petersburg). From 1962 to 1975 he worked in the electronics
industry. In 1975 he joined the Computer Engineering Department of the
Institute of Precise Mechanics and Optics (S.-Petersburg) as a Professor.

In 1991, he joined the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University
of Beer-Sheva (Israel). From 1991 he is a professor of Computer System Department
and the Head of the Center of VLSI Design in the College for Technological
Education (Holon), affiliated with Tel Aviv University. He also lectures at the
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Beer Sheva

His research interests are in various aspects of computer-aided design of
integrated circuits, with particular emphasis on VLSI, applied automata theory,
switching theory, and theory of schemes of programs. He is an author of nine books
and more than 70 papers (mainly in Russian). His latest book "Logic Synthesis
for Control Automata", was published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1991.